Chlorination in a wastewater treatment plant: Acute toxicity effects of the effluent and of the recipient water body

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 184, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 2091-2103

  Pignata, Cristina ^a   Fea, Elisabetta ^a   Rovere, Renato ^a   Degan, Raffaella ^a   Lorenzi, Eugenio ^b   De Ceglia, Margherita ^b   Schilirò, Tiziana ^a   Gilli, Giorgio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^b Società Metropolitana Acque Torino S p a   (Italy)

Author keywords

Chlorination; Escherichia coli; Toxicity; Trihalomethanes; Wastewater

Indexed keywords

ACUTE TOXICITY; DAPHNIA MAGNA; DISINFECTION BYPRODUCTS; DISINFECTION TREATMENTS; E. COLI; EMISSION LIMITS; MEAN VALUES; PSEUDOKIRCHNERIELLA SUBCAPITATA; QUALITY STANDARD; RECEIVING WATERS; SODIUM HYPOCHLORITES; SUBCAPITATA; TOXIC UNIT; TOXICITY TEST; TRIHALOMETHANES; WASTEWATER EFFLUENTS; WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANTS; WATERBODIES;

CHLORINATION; DISINFECTION; EFFLUENT TREATMENT; EFFLUENTS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HYDROMETALLURGY; RIVERS; SEWAGE PUMPING PLANTS; SODIUM; WASTEWATER; WASTEWATER TREATMENT; WATER TREATMENT PLANTS;

TOXICITY;

CHLORINE; RIVER WATER; TRIHALOMETHANE;

BACTERIUM; CHLORINATION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); EFFLUENT; POLLUTION EFFECT; TOXICITY TEST; WASTE TREATMENT; WASTEWATER;

ACUTE TOXICITY; ARTICLE; CHLORINATION; DAPHNIA MAGNA; DISINFECTION; EFFLUENT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MICROALGA; NONHUMAN; PSEUDOKIRCHNERIELLA SUBCAPITATA; RECIPIENT WATER BODY; STREAM (RIVER); TOXICITY TESTING; VIBRIO FISCHERI; WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANT; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER SAMPLING; WATER STRUCTURE;

ECOTOXICOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HALOGENATION; ITALY; SEWAGE; TRIHALOMETHANES; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

DAPHNIA MAGNA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; SELENASTRUM CAPRICORNUTUM; VIBRIO; VIBRIO FISCHERI;

EID: 84862866945     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-011-2102-y     Document Type: Article

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